ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,209, issued on July 28, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Canada).

"Detecting unrelated utterances in a chatbot system" was invented by Crystal C. Pan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Guatam Singaraju (Dublin, Calif.), Vishal Vishnoi (Redwood City, Calif.) and Srinivasa Phani Kumar Gadde (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described to determine whether an input utterance is unrelated to a set of skill bots associated with a master bot. In some embodiments, a system described herein includes a training system and a master bot. The training system trains a classifier of the master bot. The trai...